To:V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH

Written:Written in Geneva and mailed to a local addressPublished:First published in 1928 in the journalOktyabrNo. 12.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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G.V.told me that you can get from one of your acquaintances a
Brockhaus and Efron encyclopaedia. If so, I would kindly ask you to get me
the volumes containing the articles:Peasantry,SerfdomSerf economy,Corvée,Quit-rent.

Iam greatly in need of the reference material in these volumes for an
article I am writing in a
				hurry.[1]Please let me know if you can get them.

Yours,Lenin

Justreceived the pamphlet by
Engels[3]and am sending it on to you. Ask V. M. to translateallthe
			    Vorbemerkung[2]and return the pamphlet to me without delay.

Whencould she return it?

Justreceived your
report.[4]Thanks!

[1]Leninwas working at the time on the article “Reply to Criticism of
Our Draft Programme” (see present edition, Vol. 6,
pp. 438–53).—Ed.

[2]Prefatorynotes.—Ed.

[3]Areference to Engels’s “The Peasant Question in France and Germany”
(see Marx and Engels,Selected Worksin one volume, Moscow, 1968,
pp. 633–50).

[4]Thereference is to the report “Division and Sectarianism in Russia”
written by V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich at the request of Lenin and Plekhanov for
the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Later the report was published in the
Social-Democratic paper for members of religious sectsRassvet(Daybreak) No. 6–7 for 1904. The draft resolution on the publication of a
periodical for members of religious sects was written by Lenin (see present
edition, Vol. 6, p. 475).